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Match Group and Google reach an interim compromise over app payments | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | Match Group, the parent company of dating apps Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid, is getting along better with Google, just by a little bit. On Friday, Match withdrew its request for a temporary restraining order against the company, which it in its mobile app marketplace. Match filed an antitrust lawsuit against the search ... |
A third straight week of tech layoffs in the books | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | market was , but what about the actual workers behind the tech companies they’ve backed? Reluctantly, we’re writing a for , because once again, there have been reductions across stages and sectors. Over the past month, public and private tech companies have been announcing mass layoffs across sectors. Employees fr... |
One man’s quest to bring back the small phone | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | In 2017, had settled into a sweet spot between five and six inches. In hindsight, that may well have been wishful thinking. A brief respite aside, it seems that phones have only continued to embiggen, driven by a continued spec war and panel manufacturers like Samsung. Heck, even Steve Jobs famously missed the boat ... |
Salty, subterranean water could relieve world’s lithium shortage | Tim De Chant | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | in lithium-ion battery supplies isn’t cobalt, even though China has a stranglehold on the market, and it’s not nickel, either, despite nickel prices nearly doubling in the past five months. Cobalt can be partially replaced with nickel, nickel can be partially replaced with manganese, and both can be completely replace... |
Carbon capture is headed for the high seas | Harri Weber | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | Unless you live near a port, you probably don’t think much about the tens of thousands of container ships tearing through the seas, hauling some metric tons of stuff each year. Yet these vessels run on some of the there is, spewing than airplanes do in the process. The industry is exploring alternative fuels and ... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Construction tech survey, founder-CEO friction, diversify your cap table | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | The technological advances we’ve made over the last few thousand years are stunning, but the construction industry still relies on centuries-old technology. Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kin... |
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Endel’s generative soundscapes show up in Sony’s new headphones | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | The other day, , including its partnership with “what if Brian Eno was a piece of computer software” app . The company uses really fascinating AI technology to generate soundscapes and music tracks to help your brain do its best work — to help you focus deeper, sleep more easily or to relax you. I spoke with one of E... |
As Klarna looks to raise more capital, is it cutting its valuation enough? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | circle, and all that was once old is new again. For example, back in the venture days of yore, inside rounds were considered a poor market signal; if a startup could not attract a new lead investor for its next round, what did that say about the company? Last year, that bit of conventional wisdom was inverted by abnor... |
Coca-Cola’s attached bottle cap is rock bottom of hokey greenwashing | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | I don’t cover post-IPO companies a lot, and Coca-Cola is def on the list of ones I can generally ignore. But when the company sends out a hand-wringing press release about “for environmental reasons,” I’m sorry, my blood just boils. Don’t get me wrong, better recyclability is a good thing, and fewer bottle caps faili... |
Terra creator Do Kwon faces prosecution in South Korea | Kate Park | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | , the creator of the stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) and its sister token Luna, is facing legal prosecution in South Korea over the collapse of the two coins that wiped out billions of dollars from investors around the world earlier this month. The Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office Friday that it an investigati... |
Luminar’s Austin Russell: ‘We probably shouldn’t have existed’ but lidar will drive next-gen safety anyway | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | At TC Sessions: Mobility, Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell admitted that his now successful company was founded in hubris, but that a skeptical eye during peak lidar hype helped them focus on real markets. “It’s no longer about some theoretical promise — you actually have to show real results, real deliveries, re... |
Galley Solutions turns kitchen chaos into recipe for streamlined operations | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 5 | 20 | , a food data company providing food operators with technology to make more profitable decisions around their culinary operations, raised $14.2 million in Series A funding. Ian Christopher, COO, started the company with his brother-in-law, Benji Koltai, CEO, in 2017. The food enterprise resource planning tool came out ... |
Pintarnya is building a super app for Indonesia’s blue-collar workers | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | Indonesia’s 60 million blue-collar workers contribute 20% to its gross domestic product, but they face a lot of uncertainty. Many are forced to bounce from job to job, some fall victim to scam job postings and without a steady employment history, are unable to qualify for financial services, say the founders of . That... |
Withings doubles down on the classy with ScanWatch Horizon | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | I tried out the brand new ScanWatch about six months ago, and over wearing a tiny iPhone-like device on their wrists. Today, the French company announced a classier-looking version of the same watch, borrowing design language from dive watches of yore. As an avid scuba diver, I’m always a little confused by “dive w... |
NHTSA probes Tesla Autopilot crash that killed three people | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | A U.S. federal agency is investigating a crash involving a 2022 Tesla Model S that may have been operating in Autopilot during a crash that killed three people. Autopilot is Tesla’s advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) that performs automated functions such as steering, accelerating and automatic braking. The acci... |
For better or for worse: Managing founder-CEO tension inside a startup | Max Schireson | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | hire a bunch of useless salespeople like they have at Oracle?” This was the first of many memorable interactions I had with Eliot Horowitz. Eliot was the founder and CTO of MongoDB, and in late 2010, I was interviewing to come aboard as president. Product-led growth was far from the common buzzword it is today, but th... |
Behold NeuroMechFly, the best fruit fly simulator yet | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, is in some ways a simple creature. But in others it is so complex that, as with any form of life, we are only scratching the surface of understanding it. Researchers have taken a major step with D. melanogaster by creating the most accurate digital twin yet — at least in h... |
Andreessen Horowitz debuts $600 million fund for games investments | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | Andreessen Horowitz is launching a new vertical fund exclusively focused on opportunities in the games industry. The new $600 million fund brings a pool of dedicated capital and a new internal structure dedicated to sourcing deals inside the games vertical. The new vehicle, called Games Fund One, joins other industry-s... |
NY AG is investigating Twitch, Discord and 4chan for their role in the Buffalo mass shooting | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | New York Attorney General Letitia James will launch an investigation into the role that social media and online message boards played in the tragedy that unfolded in Buffalo over the weekend. On Saturday, an 18-year-old shooter opened fire at a Tops supermarket, killing 10 people and wounding three others. In online ma... |
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Grubhub’s free lunch promo creates a literal ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ for NYC restaurants | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | Grubhub offered to everyone in New York City yesterday. What could go wrong? Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., New Yorkers could use a Grubhub promo code to get a $15 discount on lunch. Naturally, restaurants got flooded with an unexpected deluge of orders. According to , a worker at a Mexican restaurant in Harlem hand-de... |
Buffalo shooter invited others to his private Discord ‘diary’ 30 minutes before attack | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | Discord has provided more insight into how the shooter who opened fire in a Buffalo, New York supermarket over the weekend used its service prior to the . The shooter, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, is charged with first degree murder in the mass shooting, which left and three injured. In the month leading up to the at... |
Daily Crunch: Plaid product updates signal push to ‘own’ more of the account funding process | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | It’s Wednesday, May 18, 2022, and we are hanging out at our event, ogling cars that fly, drive themselves and have various identity crises. Wish you were here if you’re not, and hope to run into you if you are! — and The green, green grass of climate investing just , a sustainability-focused public and private eq... |
Zoox reveals close-up of its autonomous robotaxi | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | Zoox shared a close-up of its commercial electric robotaxi at the TechCrunch Mobility 2022 conference in San Mateo, California, on Wednesday. The four-passenger, fully autonomous vehicle features a with large black sliding doors, floor-to-ceiling windows, beam-forming speakers to direct audio alerts to distracted pe... |
Aurora expands autonomous freight pilot with FedEx in Texas | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | Aurora Innovation, an autonomous vehicle technology company, has expanded its self-driving freight pilot with FedEx to include a new lane from Fort Worth to El Paso, Texas. The startup has been since September 2021, which has involved making the 240-mile trip every night. The new lane challenges Aurora’s trucks to a ... |
Joby Aviation acquires Avionyx to accelerate aerospace software certification | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | , a California-based company developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOL) , announced the acquisition of , an aerospace software engineering firm, on the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility stage on Wednesday. Joby’s piloted five-seat eVTOL aircraft can carry four passengers at speeds of up to 200 mile... |
What’s more stable than Bitcoin or UST? AriZona Iced Tea | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | ICYMI, stablecoins are in deep shit right now, and the chaos that unfolded this week has thrown the entire crypto ecosystem into turmoil with over $400 billion in losses from just one coin alone. In these times of uncertainty, all we can rely on is that we can purchase a can of AriZona Iced Tea for 99 cents, the that... |
Dear Sophie: Can I do anything to speed up the EAD renewal process? | Sophie Alcorn | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. “Whether you’re... |
Fintech Slice joins UPI race to challenge PhonePe and Google Pay | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | Slice is adding the popular railroad UPI on its eponymous app as the Indian fintech looks to broaden its offerings and pushes to become a one-stop payments app for consumers in the world’s second largest internet market. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which , said it is rolling out UPI feature to all its existin... |
Waymo is expanding its driverless program in Phoenix | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | The Waymo Driver autonomously navigating through a busy intersection to pick up a rider at the Phoenix Convention Center. Waymo Waymo’s initial Trusted Tester service area in Downtown Phoenix. Waymo In terms of further expansion, while Waymo wouldn’t share many details... |
YouTube teases livestream shopping expansion with co-streams, live redirects | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | In recent years, YouTube has been working to transform its platform into more of a shopping destination with product launches like or more recently, the ability to hosted by creators. Now, it’s furthering that investment with new features for live shopping experiences. At yesterday’s YouTube Brandcast event, where ... |
Meet Philip Reinckens, Spin’s new CEO | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | Ben Bear, the CEO of shared micromobility operator Spin, is stepping down from his role just a couple of months after the , another shared operator with a large European presence. In Bear’s place will be Philip Reinckens, a Tier veteran who, as of June 6, will be responsible for leading the new direction of Spin, incl... |
Eva Longoria and Chris Wallace CNN+ shows will move to HBO Max and CNN | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 5 | 18 | Programming that was originally meant to live on the will now move over to CNN and HBO Max, Warner Bros. Discovery announced today at its first Upfront presentation for advertisers. Shows moving to the linear CNN network include “Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico” and “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.” Another ti... |
Lidar exposes the remnants of an overgrown ancient civilization in the Amazon | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | It’s Friday and the world is falling apart, so let’s just take a short mental health break with some interesting news out of the field of archaeology, where tech is enabling some fascinating new discoveries. of land in the Amazon basin has provided evidence of a previously unknown urban center of “mind blowing” compl... |
Elon Musk says Starlink has been approved in Nigeria and Mozambique | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | Elon Musk announced in a on Friday that Starlink, the satellite internet service launched by SpaceX, his space exploration company, has been approved in Nigeria and Mozambique. This news is coming three days after Musk answered a about the service launch in Africa. “Yes, first countries in Africa to be announced co... |
As crypto becomes more mainstream, can it stay decentralized? | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | continue to face downward trends, crypto markets are anticipating greater adoption as people see the digital asset sector as a hedge against inflation (even though some prices are currently down from their 52-week marks). Whether it’s first-time buyers of cryptocurrency or people learning more about NFTs, Bitcoin and ... |
4 questions to ask before building a computer vision model | Eric Landau | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | launch of — a high-performing computer vision model that could produce predictions for real-time object detection — started an avalanche of progress that sped up computer vision’s jump from research to market. It’s since been an exciting time for startups as use cases for computer vision in everything from retail ... |
Daily Crunch: With Bungie under its wing, Sony plans to invest half of its PlayStation Studios development budget on live service games this year | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | Happy Friday, Crunchers! It’s 27 May 2022, and we are slinking into a long weekend because it’s Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S. There’s no newsletter on Monday — Haje is going 🍷 wine tasting in Sonoma, and Christine is planning to spend Monday 🛋️ sitting on the sofa doing absolutely nothing, which we celebrate ... |
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Steal this hot new summer look (it’s bacteria) | Harri Weber | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | Bacterial secretions might dye your future wardrobe, and that’d be an improvement. That’s because textiles usually get their hues from toxic chemicals, and the resulting wastewater — laden with dyes, acids and formaldehyde — destroys rivers, such as those surrounding , the capital city of Bangladesh. Wastewater treatm... |
Diesel is a horrible thing for an economy to depend on | Tim De Chant | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | inflation to heel? There’s no single, simple fix, of course, or we would have done it already. But a good place to start would be weaning the economy off gasoline and diesel. Prices for fossil fuels are through the roof. Gas prices are up over 75% since last year, and diesel is up 55%, . There are myriad reasons why ... |
Tech layoffs top 15K in a brutal May | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | It’s been a rough month in the tech sector. We’ve rounded up after of layoffs, and according to aggregator , more than 15,000 tech workers have lost their jobs this month. Hopefully the sun will come out in June. A number of tech companies that enjoyed pandemic-related surges are facing a correction, due to a numbe... |
Found celebrates one year by bringing on four founders in a roundtable episode | Maggie Stamets | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | Found is officially one year old and we’ve got a brand new look! To celebrate we decided to have back four founders who made us think, laugh and have generally stuck with us since we talked with them. If we’ve learned anything from one year of talking with founders at all stages and in a multitude of industries, it’s t... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Cannabis investor survey, product ops, recurring revenue financing | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | The cannabis industry is doing very well in the United States: More than 75% of the population lives in a state where access is permitted, and the legal market is expected to generate $33 billion this year. A black market still eats into the industry’s bottom line, however, and a patchwork of state regulations artifici... |
NJ talent firm exposed thousands of resumes, detailing immigration statuses and security clearances | Zack Whittaker | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | A New Jersey talent acquisition firm exposed the resumes and personal information of at least 30,000 prospective workers by leaving a database on the internet without a password. The database belongs to Voto Consulting, a North Brunswick company that finds U.S. jobs largely for Indian IT professionals. It’s not known e... |
Snapchat rolls out new ‘Shared Stories’ feature to make it easier to share memories | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | Snapchat is a new “Shared Stories” feature that is designed to make it easier for users on the app to collaborate and share memories. The feature is a new iteration of the app’s “Custom Stories” feature, which allows users to create a story and add friends to view and contribute to it. With the new Shared Stories fea... |
Rivian hires a new COO amid other leadership and organizational shifts | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | Rivian has hired a new chief operating officer to lead the restructuring and alignment of its operations, the automaker said Thursday. Frank Klein will join the company on June 1 as Rivian’s new COO to oversee the automaker’s production, manufacturing engineering and supply chain. The automaker also said its head of ma... |
Tesla won’t set up manufacturing plant in India until allowed to first sell and service cars, Elon Musk says | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | Tesla won’t set up a manufacturing plant in India until it is first allowed to sell and service imported cars in the South Asian nation, the carmaker’s chief executive Elon Musk said Friday, more than a year after an Indian state said that the electric carmaker was planning to open a plant in the southern part of the c... |
What’s the TAM for paid newsletters? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | that Substack, the popular newsletter publishing tool, called off fundraising plans for a Series C after a raise at its price target failed to materialize. The company’s revenue base, when compared with its hoped-for valuation, was too small to support the numbers that the startup had in mind. This is not a unique sto... |
TechCrunch Podcasts this week: Scaling web3, bulls and bears, falling tech valuations and UFOs | Matt Burns | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | TechCrunch is more than just a site with words. We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. To help you find the right show for your interests, we’ve compiled our audio output from the week. And if you are more into the written... |
A ping-pong match between bulls and bears | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | Hello and welcome back to , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Happily we were once again at full strength this week, with and chatting, and handling production. You can tell from the topic list today that we are in an odd time. There are myriad... |
Manish Maheshwari, former Twitter India head, leaves new startup | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | Manish Maheshwari, the former head of Twitter India, is leaving the startup he co-founded just six months ago following disagreements with co-founder and investors. “I am moving out of Invact to first take a break for a few months and then pursue new opportunities. It is heartbreaking for a founder to leave the startup... |
Indian fintech Jar eyes $50 million investment | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | Indian fintech Jar, which , is in talks to raise new funding as it looks to scale its product and expand its offerings. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup is engaging with several investors to raise about $50 million at a $350 million valuation, according to four people familiar with the matter. Asked for comment on ... |
BVNK grabs $40 million for its crypto banking services | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | Cryptocurrency startup (pronounced “bee-vee-en-kay”) has closed a $40 million Series A funding round at a $340 million post-money valuation. Interestingly, Tiger Global is leading the round despite being in the news because they’ve experienced during this year’s tech stock sell-off. Other investors in today’s fundi... |
A venture firm gets rewarded for selling at the market top | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | It used to be that venture capitalists couldn’t sell their stake in a portfolio company before it sold or went public without raising questions about the outfit’s prospects. As startups began staying private longer, VCs and management teams grew more comfortable with selling some of their holdings to new investors, but... |
Joywell Foods raises $25M to bring sweet proteins to market | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 5 | 27 | When consumed in moderation, sugar is not bad for us, and humans’ ability to detect sweetness is etched into our DNA, but with the abundance of it in today’s food and drinks, we are getting more than we should. Companies have created alternatives to sugar over the years, like Stevia, while others have tapped into techn... |
Synergies raises $12M to give factory managers an AI analytics assistant | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | There’s no lack of startups around the world trying to make industrial activities more efficient with artificial intelligence. Some invent robots to assist or replace manual labor, while others use machine learning to help businesses discover insights. falls into the second category. founded Synergies in 2016 in Bos... |
A law inviting Texans to sue social media companies over ‘censorship’ is back | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | A controversial Texas law that would open social media companies up to lawsuits from aggrieved users just notched a surprise win. A trio of federal appeals court judges issued the ruling Wednesday, which pauses a temporary injunction that blocked the law from taking effect last year. The law, , would prohibit tech pla... |
Japan’s Zeals raises $38.8M to scale its chat commerce platform | Kate Park | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | , a Tokyo-based startup that lets businesses communicate with their customers via its chat application, said Thursday it has secured $27.2 million (3.5 billion yen) in equity and $11.6 million (1.5 billion yen) in debt. The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4 million, the company said without disclosi... |
FCC proposes funding Wi-Fi on school buses | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel has that federal funding be provided to equip school buses with Wi-Fi, potentially closing the homework gap by that much more. I don’t know if any kids are going to do any work at 7:20 in the morning or right after the last bell has rung, but it certainly can’t hurt. The proposal would a... |
Singapore-based Good Startup raises $34M fund to invest in alternative protein companies | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | Good Startup founders Gautam Godhwani and Jayesh Parekh , a Singapore-based venture capital firm focused on alternative protein, has closed its latest fund. Consisting of $34 million, the new fund, called Good Protein Fund I, included participation from Vinmar International founder and chairman Vijay Goradia; former he... |
Rivian shares pop even as Q1 losses widen amid EV production ramp up | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | Rivian saw its first-quarter losses widen nearly fourfold as the EV maker burned through cash battling supply chain constraints and production bottlenecks to bring its electric vehicles to market. Rivian, which is now delivering its R1T pickup and R1S SUV to consumers and EDV commercial electric van to Amazon, reported... |
Fewer than 7 Days until TC Sessions: Mobility | Alexandra Ames | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | We’re less than seven days away from , our first in-person mobility event since 2019. The event takes place on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California with online analyst commentary on May 20. It’s the must-see mobility event of the year, and you have until Monday, May 15, to save $200 on a . Here’s a quick reminder of wh... |
Daily Crunch: Terraform Labs CEO goes public with strategy to re-peg sliding UST stablecoin | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | It’s Wednesday, May 11, aka the start of GooglePalooza, which the company insists on referring to as the far less entertaining “ .” Our “GoogleCrunch team” has prepared a bevy of stories on Google’s hardware and software lineup, including Pixel Watch, Pixel 6A — a tease of the Pixel 7 — and a new tablet. All the detail... |
After Netflix’s tough quarter, Disney+ gains 7.9M more subscribers to reach 138M total | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | The Walt Disney Company reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter ended April 2, 2022, announcing a 7.9 million increase of subscribers for Disney+, which brings the total to 137.9 million subs. This was ahead of forecasts of 5.2 million new subscribers and follows a tough quarter for its streaming rival Netfli... |
Bird, Lime use Google’s ARCore to power scooter parking solution | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | Bird and Lime are launching new tools to help alleviate the problem of shared electric scooters parking inappropriately, and both are powered by Google. Both Bird and Lime’s systems, named Bird Visual Parking System and Lime Visual Positioning Service (VPS times two!), respectively, rely on Google’s ARCore Geospatial A... |
DJI’s new Mini 3 Pro drone hits the aerial photography sweet spot | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | introduced a new drone — its most capable ever to squeak under the 250 gram limit that keeps operators free from a whole host of headaches and restrictions for flight (note that local laws and rules still do apply — being small doesn’t mean you can do anything you want). The drone is the first in the series to add t... |
Google debuts Cloud Run jobs for containerized, scripted tasks | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | During a developer keynote at Google I/O 2022, Google unveiled , an extension of Google Cloud’s service for developing and deploying containerized apps using languages including Go, Python and Java. Cloud Run jobs are designed for containers that run to completion and don’t serve requests, such as data processing and ... |
Erm, Google, that’s not how you write Arabic | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | I’ve been learning Arabic for a couple of years, after one of my previous startups had a large-ish team of developers in Egypt. Even though I’m only a novice, I did spot something truly bizarre in today’s keynote at Google I/O: A bunch of the languages on the slide are … wrong? The text in Arabic reads “Sudanese Langua... |
Google Play targets emerging markets with prepaid app subscriptions and more | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | At the Google I/O developer conference today, the company introduced several changes designed to make it easier for Android app developers to generate revenue via subscriptions, particularly when trying to reach users in emerging markets. Most notably, the company said it will to offer users the ability to subscribe ... |
Google Play adopts App Store-like features including in-app events and custom product pages | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | At Google’s I/O developer conference, the company rolled out a series of updates for Android app developers who publish to Google Play. Among these were two high-profile changes to its Google Play app marketplace, custom store listings and in-app events, which follow just last year. Google had been offering A/B testi... |
Google updates its Firebase back-end-as-a-service to make app development faster | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced a number of updates to Firebase, Google’s popular back-end-as-a-service platform. The focus here is mostly on deeper integrations with the rest of Google’s developer tools and platforms, as well as the overall developer ecosystem, as well as a number of updates th... |
Voice control at last: Hey Sonos, play the ‘Breaking Bad’ theme song | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | If you’ve always wanted Giancarlo Esposito — the actor playing the meth-slinging Los Pollos Hermanos boss Gustavo Fring from “Breaking Bad” — to guide you through your choice of music, ho boy does have a treat for you. Esposito lent his voice to a Sonos speaker near you, alongside its long-awaited voice control featu... |
Android 13 Beta 2 is rolling out today with new user controls, privacy features and more | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 5 | 11 | At Google’s I/O developer conference, the company that it’s releasing the second public beta of Android 13 today. The beta comes with a number of new features and user controls, along with updates to privacy and security. With Android 13, Google says it’s giving users more control over what personal information they ... |
Berlin-based B2B BNPL platform Mondu raises $43M Series A led by Valar in the US | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 5 | 29 | Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. Playter has raised backing to do this, as has Hokodo, Billie and Tranch, to name a few other players. But in Germany, B2B Paym... |
Indonesia’s Astro raises $60M to work on 15-minute grocery delivery | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 5 | 29 | Indonesia’s sprawling archipelago has long been a headache for logistics companies, but there’s no lack of brave challengers. Jarkata-based Astro, which provides 15-minute grocery delivery, has recently closed a $60 million Series B financing round, lifting its total funding to $90 million since the business launched j... |
India withdraws warning on biometric ID sharing following online uproar | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 5 | 29 | India has withdrawn a warning that asked users to not share photocopies of their national biometric ID following a widespread uproar from users on social media, many of whom pointed out that this is the first time they were hearing about such a possibility. A regional office of UIDAI, the body that oversees the nationa... |
Why web3 companies get hacked so often, according to crypto VC Grace Isford | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 5 | 29 | On the podcast this week, Lux Capital’s newest investor, Grace Isford, joined us to talk about the opaque but crucial world of web3 infrastructure. At Lux, Isford invests in the companies working behind the scenes to make sure crypto exchanges are secure and reliable enough to avoid being hacked. Before joining Lux t... |
Should Oracle or Alphabet buy VMware instead of Broadcom? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 5 | 29 | Broadcom-VMware deal is a go. The chip giant intends to the virtualization software company for $61 billion in cash and stock, along with taking on $8 billion in VMware debt. It’s not an inexpensive transaction, but thanks to a “go-shop” provision that gives VMware 40 days to “solicit, receive, evaluate and potentia... |
Finix goes head-to-head with Stripe | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 5 | 29 | We’ve all been keeping up with the . Rather than rehash all that here, I’ll point you to some of our on the topic and just summarize: The two fintech startups have recently grown (much) more competitive. If things weren’t turbulent enough, another startup has very publicly emerged as a formidable competitor to Strip... |
How Box escaped the SaaS growth trap | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 5 | 29 | for the first quarter of its fiscal 2023, the three-month period ending April 30. Box managed to beat revenue expectations, though it missed on adjusted per-share profit. Shares of the company initially lost modest ground. You might read the above paragraph and wonder why we’re digging into a SaaS company that h... |
EV SPACs are facing a new regulatory speed bump | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 5 | 29 | It’s been a bumpy road for the electric vehicle startups that rushed to go public over the past two years by merging with a publicly traded shell company. Now, the SEC’s broadest attempt to crackdown on these so-called reverse mergers could put a few speed bumps on the road to becoming — and maintaining — a SPAC. The U... |
Daily Crunch: ‘The bitcoin network is not a payments network,’ says FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | It’s Monday the 16th of May, and I’m back once again, like a renegade master. I’m fantastically over-caffeinated and at a standing desk today, so for the occasion, it’s a dancing desk. Because, I mean, try to sit still while listening to . This week, I’m psyched to head out to to get the full story on which cars wi... |
A dive into Haun Ventures with the firm’s first deal lead, Sam Rosenblum | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Sam Rosenblum never imagined he would work at a crypto-focused investment firm. A Southern California native who spent a “large portion of my life outdoors in the sun, playing sports and hanging out with friends,” crypto was not technically a thing until he was in college at UCLA. Stints at the DOJ and as an analyst fo... |
Bird changes course, drops vehicle sales in pursuit of profitability | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Bird presented its first quarter 2022 earnings on Monday after the bell. Revenue has decreased consistently since the company went in November last year. As a result, Bird is looking at streamlining resources so it can achieve profitability this year. Bird’s initiatives involve focusing on its most profitable markets... |
Rivian founder RJ Scaringe snaps up $1M worth of EV maker’s stock | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe bought 41,000 shares of company stock worth about $1 million, a posted Monday afternoon shows. The latest proxy filing, which , shows Scaringe owns 11.99 million shares of class A stock, or about 1.3%, and 7.82 million class B common stock. He also holds 4.3 million indirect shares... |
Max Q: Near and far | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. In this issue: I sat down with Astra CEO Chris Kemp and Chief Engineer Benjamin Lyon to learn more about the company’s philosophy and trajectory. “The expectation I think that a lot of people have is every launch has to be perfect,” Kemp told TechCrunch. “I think what Astra has to do, r... |
iOS 15.5 brings new Apple Cash update that lets you send and request money directly in Wallet | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Apple users can now r The company notes that users can also continue to send and request money directly in Messages by tapping the Apple Cash button in Messages, entering the amount and then selecting Request or Pay. Apple Cash can be used with Apple Pay on iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad, or be transferred to a bank ac... |
Kolkata Chai’s next cup includes a taste of venture funding | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Co-founded by brothers and , wants to be “the place to get good chai” in the United States. It’s a big market. The Sanyal brothers estimate the national tea market represents a $12.7 billion business per year. To chase after it, the duo tells TechCrunch that Kolkata is about to embark on a new chapter of its busine... |
Fall Guys is going free-to-play, coming to Switch and Xbox on June 21 | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Battle royale platformer Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is and is coming to Xbox, Nintendo Switch and the Epic Games Store on June 21, developer Mediatonic announced on Monday. The game initially launched on PlayStation and PC in August 2020 and was set to be released on Switch and Xbox last summer. A dedicated PlaySta... |
Prusa buys 3D-printer seller Printed Solid to expand US footprint | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Lots going on in the world of desktop 3D printers — that’s not a sentence I thought I’d be writing anytime soon. Days after , one of the companies’ most well-regarded competitors is making its own moves. Prague-based is acquiring , a Delaware-based 3D-printer reseller. Founded in 2011, Prusa shares some DNA with Ma... |
Ballooning US EV registrations raise opportunities for startups | Tim De Chant | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | are soaring in the U.S. — with registrations up 60% in the first quarter of the year — even as the country’s auto market contracted 18% as continued parts shortages constrained inventories. Between January and March, U.S. consumers registered 158,689 EVs, according to Experian. With EV volumes rising and automakers se... |
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There are no easy answers for tech in the aftermath of the Buffalo tragedy | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | As a gunman over the weekend, the violence was, , streamed live online. The latest U.S. mass shooting left 10 people dead and raised familiar questions about how much responsibility social media companies bear in amplifying extremism that can lead to violence and in circulating footage of these deeply disturbing inc... |
Start up solo or bring on a co-founder? 4 factors to consider | Russ Heddleston | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | is unique. I find the world of startups fascinating because the desire to address a problem or need — often one you’ve struggled with yourself — is just too tempting to resist. Taking on that problem on your own as a solo founder can be daunting, but it can also be freeing. Alternatively, starting up a company with co... |
Rivian says pricing dispute with seat supplier threatens Amazon van program | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Rivian filed a complaint against Commercial Vehicle Group, alleging that the supplier violated a contract and nearly doubled prices on a custom seat package bound for the electric vans it’s producing for Amazon and potentially other commercial customers. WSJ was the , which was filed March 9 in the Wayne County Court ... |
Melbourne-based Blinq wants to make paper business cards obsolete | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Business cards feel almost as outdated as Victorian calling cards, but they are still a networking staple. Melbourne-based wants to do away with them altogether. The app generates a QR code that shows your professional info, including social media links, as soon as someone scans it, even if they don’t have the app in... |
Twitter CEO and Elon Musk clash over bot-battling metrics | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Twitter is full of bots, this much we know. But how full, and what kinds of bots? With estimates ranging from Twitter’s own “under 5 percent” to independent researchers suggesting 20% or more, it’s clearly a tricky number to nail down, as the company’s CEO, Parag Agrawal, explained in a thread today. Prospective buyer ... |
Flexxbotics puts work-cell manufacturing on cloud nine | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | In manufacturing — and especially in the space of contract manufacturing, where production lines are reconfigured to suit the product that’s being built — we’ve seen a prevailing trend from super-specific automation robots that are custom-built to do just one thing, toward more generalized, multi-purpose robots. just... |
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